From card: "Wood; carved in relief; kerfed and pegged. Cut down from a larger box, with new top and bottom added. From: page 82, Boxes and Bowls catalog; Renwick Gallery; Smithsonian Press; 1974. Object illus. on same and following page. "Chest. Wood; carved in relief; kerfed and pegged. Cut down from a larger box, with new top and bottom added. Length: 22 1/2 [inches]. ..."

Neither object name nor description in remarks as typed on the catalogue card accurately describe this object. It seems some kind of mistake was made when the card was typed, because the object name and remarks typed on card # 89089 appear to describe rattle #89088 instead. The object name and drawing in the original Anthropology ledger book for 89089 do match this object, so object name has been changed in the database record to match the original ledger book entry. - F. Pickering 9-28-2006

LEDGER, CATALOG CARD AND SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY SENT TO PEABODY MUSEUM, HARVARD, MASS. 1888.Listed on page 43 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes".

From card: "Bear, raven, and hawk motifs."

Catalog number 88960 [part numbers E88960-0 through E88960-3] are four hats of a similar style. One of the four hats is illustrated (small) as Hat 112, p. 221 in Glinsmann, Dawn. 2006. Northern Northwest Coast spruce root hats. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006.

FROM CARD: "20252A-2.9CM WIDE, WITH CLASP, SCROLL DESIGN. 20252B-3.3 CM. WIDE WITH CLASP, SCROLL DESIGN. ONE ILLUS.: FIG. 10.5, P. 177 IN NORTHERN ATHAPASKAN ART BY KATE DUNCAN, UNIV. OF WASHINGTON PRESS, 1989. INVENTORIED 1979." FROM CARD: "BRACELETS (2).---SILVER BAND, FITTED WITH HOOK-AND-EYE CLASP, AND EXTERIOR CHASED AND ENGRAVED AFTER MODERN PATTERN. DIAMS., 2 1/4 AND 1 13/16 INS. BREADTH, 9/16 TO 1 1/8 INS. CASSIAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1876. 20,252. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN FOR CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION, 1876. MADE BY A HAIDAH INDIAN, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. SULLIVAN, GOLD COMMISSIONER OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA." 20252A illus. Fig. 56 and 57, p. 75 in Bunn-Marcuse, Kathryn B. 2007. Precious Metals: silver and gold bracelets from the Northwest Coast. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. Identified as design with foliate patterns.

Swan original tag with artifact and accession record identifies this as "Thunder Bird." Entry is garbled in the Anthropology catalogue ledger book and thus hard to read and so was mistranscribed on the catalogue card as "Thunder Reiad." - F. Pickering 9-28-2006Listed on page 45 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Northwest Coast Tribes (Tools)".

Note: Locality and cultural identification in Anthropology ledger book and catalogue card list this as Haida, Cusarn Bay, Prince of Wales Archipelago, Scowallis [sic] Tribe. It may be speculated that this is actually [Chief] Skowal's [a.k.a. Skowl] tribe, Kasaan?